Physician: Clinical psychologists who are not

Answer choices

1. A

   Bad Conclusion Match5% picked this

   Clinical psychologists who are also doctors with medical degrees should be allowed to

   This answer is just an illegal negation of the conclusion itself. Like if we were trying to prove that "tall children love their moms", this answer would be saying "short children don't love their moms". We need a principle that would allow us to derive that someone should not be allowed to prescribe, and this is a principle that allows you derive that someone should be allowed.

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2. B

   Bad Trigger Match1% picked this

   Doctors without training in clinical psychology should not be allowed to

   This is definitely a rule that would let us derive language like "should not be allowed to prescribe". Can we apply it to our subject, to "Clinical psychologists who are not also doctors with medical degrees"? Do they qualify as "doctors without training in clinical psychology"? Of course not. That sounds like the opposite group. Our conclusion is about CP's that aren't doctors. This answer is about doctors that aren't CP's. So this answer is functionally useless to us.

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3. C

   Correct77% picked this

   No one without years of training in neuroscience, physiology, and pharmacology should be allowed to

   Why this is right

   This is a rule that would allow one to derive "X should not be allowed to prescribe". Is its trigger applicable to our subject, the clinical psychologists who are not also doctors with medical degrees? If you don't have years then should not of training in neuro, phys, → be allowed to and pharmacology prescribe psy meds Yes, we can apply this rule (not with 100% certainty, but high confidence). We were told that training in clinical psychology only involves at most a few hundred hours of such training. According to this rule, if you don't get years of such training, then you shouldn't be able to prescribe. So applying this rule to what we know about clinical psychologists, we can say something very similar to the conclusion.

   Skill tested: Principle-Strengthen · how this choice captures the argument's function is the move to repeat next time.

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4. D

   Bad Conclusion Match14% picked this

   The training in neuroscience, physiology, and pharmacology required for a medical degree is sufficient for a doctor to be

   We need a rule whose outcome sounds like "should not be allowed to prescribe psychiatric medications". This answer would allow us to conclude that someone "should be allowed to prescribe".

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5. E

   Bad Conclusion Match2% picked this

   Clinical psychologists should receive years of training in neuroscience, physiology,

   We need a rule whose outcome sounds like "should not be allowed to prescribe psychiatric medications". This answer doesn't have any language like that at all.

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